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EZ Bounced Email Management for Admins · **Released**: 02-08-2007

DESCRIPTION:
This mod will insert a special EZbounce link into the header of all emails sent from your forums. In the event any email bounces back to you, you simply click the EZbounce link and the Ezbounce script launches, which will modify the bouncing members settings to prevent further bouncing emails. It will also send that member a PM asking them to update their email address.

This modification is known to work with versions as high as 3.8.x

FEATURES:

Will not modify settings for Admins, Supermods, or Moderators if their email bounces
(if turned on) Bouncing member is moved to whatever usergroup you set in AdminCP EZbounce Settings
Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email from Administrators" setting to NO
Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages" setting to NO
Updates bouncing member's "Receive Email from Other Members" setting to NO
Remove email notification for all of bouncing member's subscribed THREADS
Remove email notification for all of bouncing member's subscribed FORUMS
Turns on Popup Notification of new Private Messages for bouncing member
PM is sent to Member notifying them of bounced email & asking them to update email address
(if turned on) When member updates & confirms their new email, they are returned to original usergroup.

Now, the next time you send a newsletter from your AdminCP, (so long as you only send emails to members whom have "Receive Email From Administrators" set to "Yes") you will no longer receive a bounced email from this member (because they are no longer being sent).

And also, if you created a new usergroup such as "Bounced Members" and set this usergroupid in this hack's settings, now the members that have bounced can be pruned, sent reminder emails, whateveryou want to do with them!

WHAT IF A MEMBER DECIDED TO CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE EMAIL HEADER?
Most email clients don't show the email's headers by default, however in the event a member is slick enough to view their header and they click on this mysterious link, they will simply receive a no permission message since they're unallowed to log in to the AdminCP.

ZIP FILE CONTENTS:
1 Product (2 plugins, a couple phrases & installcode which adds 1 colum to user table)
1 File

HOW TO VIEW FULL EMAIL HEADERS:
You might need to configure your email client to view full email headers in order to see the EzBounce link. There's detailed instructions on how to do this for the most popular email clients here.

CHANGELOG:
#> 1.11 - released on 7/6/2008:
Fixed bug reported in post #583

#> 1.10 - released on 12/18/2007:
Added when bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Pop Up a Notification Box When New PM Is Received" setting is turned on before the notification PM is sent, to better ensure they are notified to update their email address.
Bought the new CD entitled Sleaze Freak by Scum Of The Earth on Amazon.com

#> 1.9 - released on 9/22/2007:
Added when bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Pop Up a Notification Box When New PM Is Received" setting is turned on before the notification PM is sent, to better ensure they are notified to update their email address.
Modified the way old usergroupid is restored so methos is more compatible with other installed mods.
Optimized some queries in ezbounce.php and plugin codes.

#> 1.8 - released on 6/1/2007:
Bug fix - fixed array_merge error for those running php 5.

#> 1.7 - released on 5/8/2007:
Bug fix - fixed bug where old usergroup was incorrectly being restored.

#> 1.6 - released on 4/26/2007:
Added protective measure for Admins, Supermods, or Mods who's email may have bounced. this makes sure their usergroup and settings are not modified

even if their email bounces.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages" is now set to NO.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, their "Receive Email from Other Members" is now set to NO.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, email notification is turned OFF for all of bouncing user's subscribed threads.
When bouncing member is managed for bouncing, email notification is turned OFF for all of bouncing user's subscribed forums.

#> 1.5 - released on 2/17/2007:
Added option in Settings which allows admin to insert the EZbounce link into outgoing email's message body (for email clients which make it difficult to show

email headers or don't properly parse html links when displaying email headers.
Fixed bug where original usergroupid was being erased in the event admin processed bounced more than once for same member

#> 1.4 - released on 2/17/2007:
Fixed bug - PM is now sent regardless of whether or not bouncing member had "Enable Private Messaging" turned off in UserCP.
Fixed bug - Usergroup is now properly reset to what it was before member was managed for bouncing

#> 1.3 - released on 2/15/2007:
New setting in AdminCP which gives option to move bouncing members into any usergroup of Admin's choice
If member had previously bounced, and they update their email, they are moved back to their original usergroup

#> 1.2 - released on 2/10/2007:
Bouncing members are now handled by setting their preference to receive admin emails to "no"
Sends PM to member notifying them email bounced
If / when member updates his/her email their preference to receive admin emails is reset to "yes"

#> 1.0 - released on 2/8/2007
Original release

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arob42 · #**252** 05-19-2007, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

Hi! Everytime i click on Management link, the following message appears in the top of the page:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /admincp/ezbounce.php on line 107

But the user was moved to the correct group, receives a PM, and the option "Receive Admin emails" was turned off.

What this error could be?

I get the same problem, but the reference is line #141.

Code:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /admincp/ezbounce.php on line 141.

Here's an excerpt from exbounce.php:

PHP Code:


			
139:
140:  // process errors if there are any 
141:  $errors = array_merge($errors, $pmdm->errors);
142:

It seems like errors may not be reported. Any ideas for a fix?

I'm running vBulletin v3.6.5.

--Robert

Antivirus · #**253** 05-20-2007, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arob42

Code:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /admincp/ezbounce.php on line 141.

It seems like errors may not be reported. Any ideas for a fix?
I'm running vBulletin v3.6.5.
--Robert

You shouldn't be getting that error. Please make sure you're using the most recent version of this mod, disable all other plugins on your site. It's most likely a conflict with another plugin or you have an older version of one of your vbulletin scripts somewhere in your installation. you can also try running Find Suspect File Versions in AdminCP->Maintenance

globalinsites · #**254** 05-20-2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antivirus

The issue I have found is that recently (within the past 2 months or so) Yahoo has begun using graylisting on all email received. I'm no expert on this stuff, but my understanding is that graylisting will bounce every email received once, and give the following reason:

Reason: Remote host said: 421 Message from (66.252.232.90) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html

Exactly, it were those defer-mails that caused the problems. They messed with my server.

So basically what you're saying is that if I want to allow Yahoo again it is best to switch to SMTP mail, and then afterwards only click the ez bounce links in the e-mails that show permanent errors?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antivirus

I think that the main issue is to make sure your hosting company treats SMTP connections from your vbulletin scripts with the same permissions as from you when connecting through your ISP.

I'm not completely sure what you mean by that but I think I understand the essence of what you're saying. Is SMTP mail something that only needs to be set up in the vBulletin admin cp or also on my server? Is it best to let my host do that? Or should they do the server stuff and me the vBulletin admin cp part? I'm not an expert either, lol.

What exactly is the difference in SMTP mail and php's mail_send()? Is it just that with SMTP vBulletin will not deal with the mail through php anymore? Once SMTP mail is set up, will there be any noticable changes for me? Are there more advantages to using SMTP?

meissenation · #**255** 05-20-2007, 10:37 PM

Works great! I just installed this and then sent a newsletter out to everyone on my site. Had 42 bounces, set all of them to the bounced usergroup.

Thanks!

txsbmw · #**256** 05-21-2007, 11:24 AM

I notcied some people were having problems getting the bounced e-mails (as I am). I use my own domain e-mail addy and have not received any bounced e-mails even though I sent out a mass e-mail last night. Come to find out (even though I have my admin e-mail set up in the config.php as well as everywhere else such as AdminCP and such) the e-mails were being returned to my "catch all" account that was automatically created when I set up my hosting. I never use that account or even check it, and if I had not had stumbled across it in my Cpanel last night I would have never have known that is where the bounced e-mails were going. I have already contacted my hosting company to find out what is going on, but I thought I would let other users know that are using their domain e-mail address that if they are not getting the bounced e-mails to check their catch all account to see if they are there.

Alibass · #**257** 05-21-2007, 03:45 PM

**Installed**

Nice mod m8. Makes things a lot easier for me.

Antivirus · #**258** 05-23-2007, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by globalinsites

So basically what you're saying is that if I want to allow Yahoo again it is best to switch to SMTP mail, and then afterwards only click the ez bounce links in the e-mails that show permanent errors?

That's correct, yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by globalinsites

What exactly is the difference in SMTP mail and php's mail_send()? Is it just that with SMTP vBulletin will not deal with the mail through php anymore? Once SMTP mail is set up, will there be any noticable changes for me? Are there more advantages to using SMTP?

SMTP is when your mail server actually sends out the emails, as opposed to the actual php scripts as with php's mail_send() method.

BadgerDog · #**259** 05-24-2007, 10:47 AM

Ok, I need some clarification please...

I installed this mod without a problem on v3.6.7PL1....

I use another mod that sends out emails from the AdminCP (I think) to inactive members and it works well, but I've now received 3 bounces from bad mailboxes.

However, I don't see any of the above demo screens and I can't find any EZ-Bounce link in any of the emails that were returned to me with the "Mail Delivery Subsystem" error?

I don't use the usergroup "move" option at all....

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

djbaxter · #**260** 05-24-2007, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Ok, I need some clarification please...

I installed this mod without a problem on v3.6.7PL1....

I use another mod that sends out emails from the AdminCP (I think) to inactive members and it works well, but I've now received 3 bounces from bad mailboxes.

However, I don't see any of the above demo screens and I can't find any EZ-Bounce link in any of the emails that were returned to me with the "Mail Delivery Subsystem" error?

I don't use the usergroup "move" option at all....

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

If you are using Inactive Users Reminder Email:

1. Version 1.11 uses the vBulletin mail queue and should have the headers. However, 1.11 is buggy - consider it beta. I recommend you uninstall it and install version 1.09.

2. If using version 1.09, open remindermail.php and find:

PHP Code:


			
            $headers .= "To: $username <$email>" . "\r\n";

            $headers .= "From: " . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . " Reminder Service <" . $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'] . ">" . "\r\n";

Add below:

PHP Code:


			
// add EZBounce headers

            $bounceurl        = $vbulletin->options['ezb_admincpurl'] . "/ezbounce.php?u=" . $userid;

            $bouncestring    = "<a href="$bounceurl" target="_blank">$bounceurl</a>";

            $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter;

BadgerDog · #**261** 05-24-2007, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If you are using Inactive Users Reminder Email:

1. Version 1.11 uses the vBulletin mail queue and should have the headers. However, 1.11 is buggy - consider it beta. I recommend you uninstall it and install version 1.09.

2. If using version 1.09, open remindermail.php and find:

PHP Code:


			
            $headers .= "To: $username <$email>" . "\r\n";

            $headers .= "From: " . $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] . " Reminder Service <" . $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'] . ">" . "\r\n";

Add below:

PHP Code:


			
// add EZBounce headers

            $bounceurl        = $vbulletin->options['ezb_admincpurl'] . "/ezbounce.php?u=" . $userid;

            $bouncestring    = "<a href="$bounceurl" target="_blank">$bounceurl</a>";

            $headers .= 'X-EZbouncer: ' . $bouncestring . $delimiter;

Thank you...

Thanks to your excellent recommendation in the threads for that other mod, I'm running v1.09. It's working well and I really don't see upgrading ever...

I've made the edits to the file above and I guess I'll wait for another email to bounce and see what happens....

Thanks again for your support, here and there... :up:

Regards,
Badger

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